A little bit about John
Welcome to John's website, he sincerely hopes you enjoy exploring the artwork he has created in the last few years.
John is a Manchester based artist, and has been creating paintings for as long as he can remember along side a high quality flexographic printing career, where colour matching was essential. This was until 4 years ago when he gave up this career to become a full time artist.
Motivation to capture the landscapes and seascapes around the UK and beyond in oil paintings, comes from his love of the outdoors and a passion for creating art that tells a story of personal experience. Bringing a landscape scene to life in rich colours and fine detail for the viewer to connect with is one of John's main goals. He was rewarded for this attention to detail when he received some recognition by winning runner up in 'Art Show International 2022'.
​Many of the paintings on display have taken several weeks of brush work to complete, building up fine layers of oil paint and texture in a process he follows to create depth in his art.
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Since 2020 when John had his first display, he has been fortunate and successful in exhibiting work in a number of galleries including D31 Doncaster, Saul Hay Manchester, Mall Galleries London with the Royal Society of British Artists. And now represented by Goose Green Art Gallery, Altrincham.
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Original Oil Paintings
Quality Giclée Prints
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2024
29th February - 9th March
I was really pleased to have one of my paintings 'Reflections' selected for the prestigious RBA 2024 annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London and delighted the oil painting sold on the preveiw evening.
Cotton on Manchester Exhibition
I was delighted to hear that 2 of my paintings made the shortlist of 65 out of the 189 submitted to be displayed at the 'Cotton on M'cr' Landscape Exhibition at the Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester.
D31 Gallery Summer Exhibition
Having missed the artist launch party while in Rhodes, it was great to get the opportunity to see the gallery set up for the exhibition at first hand at the public launch.
Meeting Chinwe Russell, Laura Lee and the rest of the gallery team was inspiring, not to mention having some very interesting conversations with talented and diverse artists like London based Ekaterina Adelskaya. Three of my works were on display during the exhibition in Doncaster. Both of the original paintings seen in the photo have now sold.
The news is......I made the news
Following on from the small display I had in Romiley, a local newspaper noticed the display and wrote an article about me and my oil paintings, highlighting the landscape scenes of Romiley Village, Marple and Chadkirk that the locals know so well and love.
Award winning painting
I was delighted to come runner up in the
'Art show International' Landscape 2021 competition for 'Samuel's Mill' Although once a little sceptical of art competitions as being subjective, I think my attitude might be changing towards them as I have started to believe it helps to build self confidence as an artist and to a degree, gives the painting and myself some credibility.
My Grandad loved your print. I gave it him today after getting it framed for Father's Day. He cried. He was made up. So thank you for creating such a special painting.
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John